Psalms 81:12. So I gave them up -
Dreadful word! If God gives us up, even for a moment, there is no telling into what sin we may plunge; and if he were to give us up altogether, -ah, me! this were the most direful of sentences: "So I gave them up" -
Psalms 81:12. Unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
O God, save us from this awful state! This indeed is hell - to be given up of God. Pray, dear brothers and sisters, that such a terrible curse may never come upon you. Yet it is a most righteous punishment; if a man will not have God, and will give God up, what can be a more righteous retribution than that God should give him up? He does so at last with ungodly men, yet he does it very reluctantly, and he says, "How shall I give thee up?" May he never give up one of you!
Psalms 81:12. So I gave them up -
Dreadful word! If God gives us up, even for a moment, there is no telling into what sin we may plunge; and if he were to give us up altogether, -ah, me! this were the most direful of sentences: "So I gave them up" -
Psalms 81:12. Unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
O God, save us from this awful state! This indeed is hell - to be given up of God. Pray, dear brothers and sisters, that such a terrible curse may never come upon you. Yet it is a most righteous punishment; if a man will not have God, and will give God up, what can be a more righteous retribution than that God should give him up? He does so at last with ungodly men, yet he does it very reluctantly, and he says, "How shall I give thee up?" May he never give up one of you!